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Those who work in coastal parts of the region will be especially affected by the likely loss of access to a hurricane evacuation planning web-based tool, known as HURREVAC, that is owned by FEMA and administered by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It is used by meteorologists and emergency planners to identify areas that need to…
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The most recent Drought Monitor, released late last week, showed an increase in drought conditions across most of the region, although a few small areas that got rain did see some improvement. The biggest increase was in exceptional drought in southern Georgia and northern Florida with some smaller areas of growing drought in the Carolinas.…
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As more greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere, Georgia’s climate is getting warmer and the rainfall patterns are changing. Future changes depend on actions that we take to curb the emissions. Drawdown Georgia has prepared a set of Georgia-specific climate projections for heat and rainfall trends through 2025 that look at how different decisions…
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Those of you who follow ENSO know that we are currently transitioning from La Nina to neutral conditions. A strong El Nino is expected to follow by later this summer and last through next winter, although since it is spring there is still a lot of uncertainty in that forecast. If it does happen, what…
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Earlier this week, NOAA released their official spring outlook for climate conditions across the country. It shows that drought is expected to expand in the western US as well as parts of the Plains over the next three months. Fortunately for us in the Southeast, their forecast shows a good chance of improving conditions over…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows that there will not be a lot of rain this week in most of the region. On Wednesday a coastal low will bring some rain to parts of eastern Georgia and South Carolina, but most of the rain will occur offshore. Rain will also occur in the Ohio River…
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows an area of exceptional drought (D4) was added to south-central Georgia and northern Florida this week as conditions continue to be very warm and dry in that region. Drought did improve in Alabama, northern Georgia and North Carolina, but also got worse in western Virginia. In Alabama, dry conditions were…
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